Alex Thomson

Harrow, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist | Clinical Lead for Substance Misuse in Mental Health (Psych Med) | Brent and Harrow

Medical / Health Care / Pharmaceuticals

Dr Thomson is a liaison psychiatrist in a newly established liaison psychiatry dept. based in North West London Hospitals NHS Trust - Central Middlesex, Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospitals. Liaison Psychiatry is the specialty that sees and treats patients with comorbid or overlapping mental and physical conditions, usually in a general hospital setting. The scope of liaison psychiatry is far broader than crisis mental health response to the emergency department, and includes attending to the psychological/emotional needs of people with long-term medical conditions, seeing people with psychiatric symptoms caused by medical conditions, and seeing people with physical symptoms for which ...